Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.